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It isn't a good thing. People are saying that he obviously wants away so much it's probably better if he goes. We're undoubtedly weaker for him leaving but if he's not 100% committed to the club then it's probably better he leaves. If a player wants away then he should be honest enough to say so and he has done so hats off to him. I'd rather he stayed but there you go. Not the end of the world all things considered. None of them are 100% committed to the club though and never will be. It's just not a realistic expectation in football today and it's definitely not a realistic expectation at NUFC today. They all want away, I don't need a transfer request to tell me that. The only difference is that Beye actually has a chance at getting away unlike the real wastes of oxygen at the club like Alan Smith and Damien Duff. If players don't want to be here then it's best they find themselves other clubs. Beye has obviously been beavering away and and if then other shit you mentioned wants away then they need to leave too. I'll support the club. Don't really care who pulls on the shirt, I'll back them. But if we only have players who want to be here, the club will not survive because it will be made up of NOFC. Given the 50-50 choice, I'd have good players ahead of loyal every day - especially faux loyal like Smith and Duff.

Ridiculous analogy. Why should it be any different? They are paid to play football for this club at a high standard, why should they be allowed to expect a transfer when it's those very players that got us relegated, none of them wanted to take pay cuts, blaming everyone but themselves, it's ridiculous that you sit here and defend them, those players got us relegated, no one else, the fact that any of them are clapped off like hero's when they go and join another club is absurd. It's different because Habib Beye didn't make a mistake that got us relegated. Would I walk away from my hypothetical company if the owner had made a string of catastrophic decisions that had brought it to its knees before walking away and leaving it with no management and no hope while the thriving company over the road offered me a job? Probably, yes. "None of them wanted to take pay cuts" ffs. That's one thing I'm always doing at work like, asking them to give me less money so they can afford an extra box of pens in the stationary cupboard.

Ridiculous analogy.

How many players do that? It's a hundred times harder to find a club in January than summer. January is a backup window, summer's the bread and butter. The club's a fucking shambles man, because a player wants to leave that, he's a cunt. Give your heads a shake. He wanted a new contract, the club needs to be sold first, come January its all sorted he could have had what he wanted. What will he do if the club is sold this week and Shearer given the managers job, will he retract the transfer request. Aye he'll probably come straight back on his flying pig. More chance of me winning the lottery man and I don't even put the fucker on.

It isn't a good thing. People are saying that he obviously wants away so much it's probably better if he goes. We're undoubtedly weaker for him leaving but if he's not 100% committed to the club then it's probably better he leaves. If a player wants away then he should be honest enough to say so and he has done so hats off to him. I'd rather he stayed but there you go. Not the end of the world all things considered. None of them are 100% committed to the club though and never will be. It's just not a realistic expectation in football today and it's definitely not a realistic expectation at NUFC today. They all want away, I don't need a transfer request to tell me that. The only difference is that Beye actually has a chance at getting away unlike the real wastes of oxygen at the club like Alan Smith and Damien Duff.

How many players do that? It's a hundred times harder to find a club in January than summer. January is a backup window, summer's the bread and butter. The club's a fucking shambles man, because a player wants to leave that, he's a cunt. Give your heads a shake.

Quite why our best player asking to leave is a good thing is beyond me. Can't wait till we've a squad made up of the lads who want to be here and who are hungry for success at NUFC (i.e. nobody else will have them because they're on massive wedge and are absolutely fucking shit).

You just know there'll be some knob dancing around outside SJP with an inflatable nuclear warhead. Where do you get those? Or do you just mean one of the inflatable cocks hen nights have, painted green with a yellow bell-end? Isn't that how a cock is supposed to look? Shit.

You just know there'll be some knob dancing around outside SJP with an inflatable nuclear warhead.

You should be pleased to get that much for him. He's worth more. That's not what I'm pissed off about anyway, it's the underhand way of doing business from City. If he's not worth 19 million pounds then you might aswell just claim he's priceless. Cos there's no fucking way on this Earth he is worth any more than that. He's not even an England regular. The obvious comparison to make is Johnson, and he's not worth more than him in today's ridiculous market. Haddaway man Yorkie, Lescott's ten times the defender Johnson is.

Usually go to the friendlies but bollocks am I going to this.

The answer at that time was Blackburn. Might have been after then. Give us a break man I was 5! I'll let you off but if Tooj sees this sort of lax football knowledge there'll be bother.

The answer at that time was Blackburn.

"We're shit."

I fell asleep on the sofa at 2-1, woke up at 6pm, refreshed the page, saw the thread title and nearly fell off the fucker.

Too fan friendly if anything. How many chairman sit with the fans and drink with the fans and wear the shirt? Because he was sat with us, he'd hear the fans slagging Allardyce, so he sacks him and appoints Keegan. His biggest mistake was then appointing Wise and then giving him too much influence. Ashley has made mistakes but he has lost a hell of alot of money. Personally I couldn't give two fucks how much money he's lost. It's still not enough, I won't be happy till he's living in a cardboard box.

The last thing I'd describe Mike Ashley as is "fan friendly". The man has total contempt for each and every one of us.

Fucking hell.

I'm in.

True. Obviously, I know absolutely nothing about the facts of the matter, but I find it very suspicious that Gerrard was not guilty of affray for hitting the guy but his mates were... His mates said they were guilty. Gerrard denied the charge. and that matters how ? Of course it matters. I have seen a lot of posts in this thread saying how is it even possible for his mates to be guilty and him getting away with it, well the facts are he was the only one who denied the affray charges. The rest were always going to be charged. Begs the question of why they all pleaded guilty though.

It happened in Meresyside, so their County/Crown Court will deal with it, nothing sinister about it. Not necessarily when there's a clear conflict of interest concerning any potential jury. Same could have been said for Joey Barton being tried in Manchester/Liverpool in that case. What's your point? Barton wasn't tried in Liverpool anyway, he pleaded guilty (and has never played for a Merseyside club anyway). He was set to be tried in Manchester for the Dabo affair but there's a substantial difference between Barton spending a few years at City and not doing very much and Steven Gerrard being one of Liverpool's greatest ever players who can do no wrong for the red half of Merseyside. For the record, the Bowyer/Woodgate trial was transferred to Hull Crown Court for that very reason.

It happened in Meresyside, so their County/Crown Court will deal with it, nothing sinister about it. Not necessarily when there's a clear conflict of interest concerning any potential jury.

I said if he wants to leave, he should put a transfer request in. Personally, I hope he stays because I think he'd be the best full-back in the league but if he doesn't want to be here.... He's made it pretty clear he wants to stay imo. He just wants things sorted, same as the rest of us. That won't happen and he'll be forced to walk away - that does not make him a cunt, greedy or any of the other disgraceful things he's been called over the last week. It all simply comes back to the fat slug at the helm. I thought he confirmed he wanted to leave, hence the thread title? We all want things sorting out but he's under contract to the club whereas we aren't. He's got a choice - he can either knuckle down and do what he's being paid handsomely to do or he can leave. I'm just saying that if it' the latter, he needs to do things properly. I've already said I want him to stay but I wouldn't want him to stay if he's going to twist on all the time. He's either part of the problem or part of the solution. "I'd like nothing more than to stay and help the team get back to where it belongs but there is no chance of us being promoted the way things are going. "Training has been good and no one is slacking or taking it easy. But there is a sense that everything is just drifting." "This cannot go on, it really can't. I feel for the good of my career I have to get away because it is dragging me down." What he wants and what he might have to do are clearly two different things. Like JJ says, why would he put a transfer request in when Shearer might take over next week and he gets what he wants? The fact is that if we're only going to have players on the books who want to be at Mike Ashley's Newcastle United and feel their career can progress here then we're looking at two sets of players - the wastes of oxygen we've already got on massive wedge and utterly desperate shite from divisions lower than the Championship. I'd rather Beye was unhappy than not with the way things are going. I don't give two fucks if he's getting involved in fights on the pitch - I'm just living in hope that he's keeping in practice for the next time he sees Mike Ashley.

If it keeps him out for six months, probably. Fingers crossed (not Nicky's though, he can't).

I said if he wants to leave, he should put a transfer request in. Personally, I hope he stays because I think he'd be the best full-back in the league but if he doesn't want to be here.... He's made it pretty clear he wants to stay imo. He just wants things sorted, same as the rest of us. That won't happen and he'll be forced to walk away - that does not make him a cunt, greedy or any of the other disgraceful things he's been called over the last week. It all simply comes back to the fat slug at the helm.